Suetonius: The Lives of the Caesars

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The ancient Roman empire was the supreme arena, where emperors had no choice but to fight, to thrill, to dazzle. No biography invites us into the lives of the Caesars more vividly or intimately than that by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, written from the centre of Rome and power, in AD 121, and now translated and presented by Tom Holland. Suetonius injected flesh and blood into their stories, which continue to inform how we understand and shape the drama of power today.

Podcaster, classicist, cricketer, translator and historian, Tom Holland’s books include Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, Persian Fire his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, In the Shadow of the Sword, Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind, and, intriguingly, Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar. He co-presents The Rest is History podcast.

Chaired by Peter Florence.

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